# Certificate. February 20, 1920
# Source: Lenin Collected Works XL, p. 69
# Date: 1920-02-20

1 N. N. Krestinsky — party member since 1903. After the Great October Socialist Revolution — People's Commissar of Finance; from December 1919 to March 1921 — Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b).

NOTE TO S. S. DANILOV1

Tomorrow I am occupied with a commission2. When I am free, I shall try to telephone you.

15/8 [1919] Lenin

1 The note was written on the reverse of a letter from the Military Commissar of the All-Russian General Staff S. S. Danilov dated August 15, 1919, requesting a meeting on August 16 concerning: "1. verification accounting of those liable for military service; 2. re-examination of those previously rejected; 3. the conscription of 1901."
It has not yet been possible to establish whether V. I. Lenin received Danilov.
2 Which commission is being referred to has not been established.

RESOLUTION ON THE REPORT
OF G. D. TSYURUPA1

Comrades Rykov and Krasin!2
Your conclusion?

24/IX [1919] Lenin

1 The resolution was written on the report of the Chief Engineer of the Construction of the Kashira Power Station G. D. Tsyurupa dated September 23, 1919, to the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense regarding the difficult situation in supplying the construction with monetary funds, provisions, and fodder, and the necessity of taking urgent measures to resolve this question.
On October 1 and 10, 1919, the question was discussed at sessions of the Defense Council under the chairmanship of V. I. Lenin. On October 11 at a session of the Small SNK, a decision was adopted to allocate 7 million rubles to the Kashira construction and to supply it with provisions and articles of prime necessity. On October 13 the SNK resolution was signed by V. I. Lenin (see "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Biographical Chronicle," Moscow, 1976, vol. 7, pp. 539, 557, 562).
2 L. B. Krasin — party member since 1890. After the Great October Socialist Revolution headed the work of the Extraordinary Commission for Supply of the Red Army, was a member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, People's Commissar of Trade and Industry, of Transport; from 1919 was engaged in diplomatic work; in 1922–1924 — People's Commissar of Foreign Trade.

TELEGRAM
TO I. N. MAEVSKY, M. K. VLADIMIROV,
THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT,
THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE 13TH ARMY

[October 8, 1919]

To Comrade Maevsky, Comrade Vladimirov*,
Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front, Revolutionary Military Council of the 13th Army:

In view of the departure of the Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the Defense Council Vladimirov to the South-Eastern Front and the importance of urgently clearing the Orel–Tula section of cargo located there, pending Vladimirov's return, transfer the rights of the Plenipotentiary of the Southern Front on this section to the Plenipotentiary of the Central District, Comrade Maevsky.

Chairman of the Defense Council Lenin

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1 M. K. Vladimirov (Sheinfinkl) — member of the RSDLP since 1903. After the Great October Socialist Revolution worked in the Petrograd City Food Administration and in the People's Commissariat of Food; in 1919 — Extraordinary Military Commissar of Railways and Chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Southern Front.

CERTIFICATE

February 20, 1920

I have known Comrade Alexander Sidorovich Shapovalov for a long time, for many years before the revolution, and I know him personally as the most reliable and devoted Bolshevik and revolutionary.

I request that full confidence and every kind of assistance be extended to him.

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